diff --git a/charts/falco/Chart.yaml b/charts/falco/Chart.yaml
index 9e3d71a37..37b355ac3 100644
--- a/charts/falco/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/falco/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: v2
 name: falco
-version: 4.6.0
-appVersion: "0.38.1"
+version: 4.6.1
+appVersion: "0.38.0"
 description: Falco
 keywords:
   - monitoring
diff --git a/charts/falcosidekick/CHANGELOG.md b/charts/falcosidekick/CHANGELOG.md
index 3ca11698c..ac595c0c6 100644
--- a/charts/falcosidekick/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/charts/falcosidekick/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ numbering uses [semantic versioning](http://semver.org).
 
 Before release 0.1.20, the helm chart can be found in `falcosidekick` [repository](https://github.com/falcosecurity/falcosidekick/tree/master/deploy/helm/falcosidekick).
 
+## 0.8.2
+
+- Fix redis-availability check of the UI init-container in case externalRedis is enabled
+
 ## 0.8.1
 
 - allow to set resources, securityContext and image overwrite for wait-redis initContainer
diff --git a/charts/falcosidekick/Chart.yaml b/charts/falcosidekick/Chart.yaml
index 0c2b43019..4621acbb0 100644
--- a/charts/falcosidekick/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/falcosidekick/Chart.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ appVersion: 2.29.0
 description: Connect Falco to your ecosystem
 icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/falcosecurity/falcosidekick/master/imgs/falcosidekick_color.png
 name: falcosidekick
-version: 0.8.1
+version: 0.8.2
 keywords:
   - monitoring
   - security
diff --git a/charts/falcosidekick/templates/deployment-ui.yaml b/charts/falcosidekick/templates/deployment-ui.yaml
index 34e2aa0c8..705e823c4 100644
--- a/charts/falcosidekick/templates/deployment-ui.yaml
+++ b/charts/falcosidekick/templates/deployment-ui.yaml
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ spec:
       initContainers:
         - name: wait-redis
           image: "{{ .Values.webui.initContainer.image.registry }}/{{ .Values.webui.initContainer.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.webui.initContainer.image.tag }}"
+          {{- if .Values.webui.redis.enabled }}
           command: ['sh', '-c', 'echo -e "Checking for the availability of the Redis Server"; while ! nc -z {{ include "falcosidekick.fullname" . }}-ui-redis 6379; do sleep 1; done; echo -e "Redis Server has started";']
+          {{- else if .Values.webui.externalRedis.enabled }}
+          command: ['sh', '-c', 'echo -e "Checking for the availability of the Redis Server"; while ! nc -z {{ required "External Redis is enabled. Please set the URL to the database." .Values.webui.externalRedis.url }} {{ .Values.webui.externalRedis.port | default "6379" }}; do sleep 1; done; echo -e "Redis Server has started";']
+          {{- end}}
           {{- if .Values.webui.initContainer.resources }}
           resources:
           {{- toYaml .Values.webui.initContainer.resources | nindent 12 }}